Word: deconstructivist
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Dates: during 1990-1999
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...After all, architects who refuse to condemn suburban mall sprawl and who favor cheap industrial materials aren't usually the beneficiaries of high-corporate patronage. Which isn't to imply that there are many--or even any--architects quite like Koolhaas. Some would label his disorienting, asymmetric buildings deconstructivist; he likes to consider himself an architect without style. For him, form not only doesn't follow function; the two are barely on speaking terms...
...Maserati by Vogue and Harper's Bazaar. His first book, Delirious New York, was rereleased and sold 28,000 copies (not bad for a theoretical treatise on the American city written in the '70s). "I would say he's the most comprehensive thinker in the profession today," says American deconstructivist Frank Gehry. "He's the hope for the cities...
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